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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -Cicero

OBAMA DEMOCRAT IN NY CITY GETS MUSLIM BACKING

While the public’s attention has been focused on the battles between
the White House and Congress, the race for mayor has been unfolding in
New York City, with national implications.

In the city of the 9/11
terrorist attacks, the Obama-backed “progressive” Democratic frontrunner
is promising to close down New York Police Department surveillance of
radical Muslims and replace Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

Bill De Blasio has also promised to incorporate two Muslim holidays in the New York City public school system.

His embrace of Islam as an emerging political force was highlighted
in an extraordinary New York Times article about his controversial past
and support for communist regimes in Nicaragua and Cuba.

The Times had previously been known for its unrelenting attacks on
the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and Police Commissioner
Kelly.

At stake in the mayoral contest is not just whether de Blasio’s
Obama-style tax-and-spending policies could bankrupt the city, but
whether another major terrorist attack will be allowed to occur because
of left-wing pressure to discontinue aggressive police tactics and
surveillance activities. De Blasio’s opponent on November 5 is moderate
Republican Joe Lhota.

The New York City Police Department reports, “There have been 16 known terrorist plots against New York City since September 11, 2001.”

On Wednesday, a group of militant Muslims rallied for Bill de Blasio
in Brooklyn, New York. Local news reports identified the rally organizer
and main speaker, Linda Sarsour, simply as the head of the Muslim
Democratic Club. However, her family’s connections to the terrorist
group Hamas have been mentioned in numerous press reports.

The New York Times reported,
for example, that “Members of her family had been arrested on
accusations of supporting Hamas, the Islamist group that governs the
Gaza Strip.”The Muslim Democratic Club of New York had previously endorsed de Blasio for mayor, with Sarsour saying,
“We are fully committed to push the Muslim vote out for Bill this
November and look forward to working with him during his tenure to
advance all communities in our city, including American Muslims.”

“New York is the jihadis’ prime target,” writes
Pamela Geller, the founder, editor, and publisher of Atlas Shrugs.com.
“This surveillance is in large part what has prevented another major
jihad attack in the City since 9/11. So of course stealth jihadis like
Linda Sarsour want this surveillance ended, and the leftist de Blasio is
anxious to accommodate them.”

Sarsour denied the charges of personal family connections to Hamas,
telling AIM, “It’s like saying all people with the last name Smith are
related!? I have absolutely ZERO ties to Hamas and have condemned them
numerous times.”

Sarsour insisted that the amount of critical attention focused on her
activities is the result of “Islamophobia,” and pointed to a report
on the “Islamophobia industry” published by the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim Brotherhood front. She also
cited a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center critical of Geller.

However, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a discredited
organization that throws around wild charges against conservatives,
accusing them of spewing “hate” and being conspiracy-minded “patriots.”
This columnist has been one of their targets.

The Legal Project, an activity of the Middle East Forum, has noted
that the Southern Poverty Law Center seeks to “silence those who seek to
educate the public on the Islamist threat.”

The SPLC was itself linked
to a terrorist attack on the conservative Family Research Council (FRC)
in Washington, D.C. The SPLC had provoked the attack by a gay-rights
activist by labeling the FRC a hate group.

Geller has clearly been targeted because she is a major figure in the
movement to expose the threat posed by radical Islam. Her honors and
awards include:

The Annie Taylor Award for courage, from the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

The Patriot of the Year Award, from the Queens Republican Club (the oldest Republican organization in the country).

The Queen Esther Award for Jewish Heroism, from the Creative Zionist Coalition.

The American flag that flew over Helmand Province, Afghanistan on
the 10th anniversary of 9/11, presented to her by members of the U.S.
Marine Corps.

The “NCFRW Freedom Award,” presented by the Nassau County Federation of Republican Women.

While Sarsour’s alleged Hamas connections continue to generate
comment and controversy, her statements critical of aggressive police
tactics against potential terrorists are not in dispute.

A detailed 9-page report
from the Investigative Project on Terrorism quotes a number of
anti-police comments from Sarsour. She is even quoted as saying that
terrorist convictions in such cases as al-Qaeda operatives Syed Hashmi
and Aafia Siddiqui were somehow improper and unwarranted.

Referring to the NYPD, she said, “They are sending in informants,
people who look like us, who speak like us to try to rake out what they
say are potential terrorists, which we don’t have in our communities.”

Kelly’s proven record of stopping terrorist attacks includes his
creation in 2002 of a Counterterrorism Bureau in the NYPD. It was the
first unit of its kind in the nation.It is not clear if de Blasio, as mayor, would dismantle the bureau.

Last May, the New Jersey State Police and JTTF in Newark, New Jersey named
Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, a Most Wanted Terrorist
by the FBI. She is a convicted cop-killer who fled to Cuba with the help
of the Weather Underground and has been living under Castro’s
protection since at least 1984.

Cuba is where de Blasio and his wife reportedly spent their
“honeymoon,” apparently in 1994, on a trip even described by the press
as illegal. His wife is a former lesbian who lived in a Marxist “collective.”

De Blasio has refused to talk about the trip in any detail, and won’t
even discuss his aliases and name changes. The New York Daily News reports he was born Warren Wilhelm Jr., changed his name to Warren de Blasio, and then to Bill de Blasio.

In another controversy, De Blasio said that he could not celebrate
the “historical figure” of Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day, as
“there are some troubling things in his history.”